Friendly Crosshairs

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I'd imagine that in large fleet settings this change isn't very beneficial. But I can definitely say that for example a gunboat versus two bombers was a matchup where a skilled gunboat could fairly confidently win even against good bomber players, but if those bomber players had no (hostile) IFF it'd be about twice as hard and very likely result in the bombers winning. It's just very clunky to have to constantly swap for small range differences.

Cruisers had similar issues in smaller scale fights. Also, presumably larger caps would have similar issues against groups of gunboats, etc.

Again, I'm not going to pretend this is a perfect change, but it definitely has its pros. It shouldn't be advantageous to fly Aggressors on Pirate IDs or something to avoid having a Xeno IFF (people did exactly this in recent history) and get a very sizeable PvP advantage out of it. It's just dumb.

There are options here. We could force IFFs for every ID in the game including Freelancer/Pirate and allow people to forcibly set Freelancers to red. I'd definitely have them red on all of my larger ships.

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